Dish It Up: For a Super Bowl crowd, turkey chili and corn cakes and No. 7
At a Super Bowl gathering, folks serve themselves from a family-style bar stocked with turkey white bean chili, toppings, tortillas, chips and corn pudding cakes. / Andy Barron/RGJ Super Bowl 2013 is...
View ArticleDish It Up: White chicken lasagna calms and comforts
Nancy Horn has been making lasagnas like this chicken white sauce version since childhood. / Liz Margerum/RGJ Sometimes, all I can handle is white.The world is so fast and colorful — with bits of...
View ArticleDish It Up: Save the Easter ham bone for split pea soup
Dish It Up: Save the Easter ham bone for split pea soupAdd a spurt of lemon juice to finish the seasoning of split pea soup. / Andy Barron/RGJI’ve been thinking about you all lately, wondering how you...
View ArticleDish It Up: How to cook, dye, store and use Easter eggs
When dyed, brown eggs yield richer colors. Make classic egg salad or deviled eggs out of leftover Easter eggs. / Joe Horn/For the RGJ I was talking on the phone with my sister the other day about what...
View ArticleDish It Up: Grilled London broil makes an easy dinner
London broil is an affordable cut meant to be thinly sliced across the grain. It's also called top round or flank steak. / By Joe Horn/For the RGJWhen I need a real dinner and don’t want to dirty a...
View ArticleDish It Up: Too hot for the oven? Think slow cooker pulled pork
Serve slow cooker pulled pork on sweet Hawaiian rolls, in tacos or alone heaped in a bowl. / Joe Horn/For the RGJThere are times when you want a substantial dinner, something that cooks low and slow in...
View ArticleDish It Up: Sharing a family recipe for Boston baked beans
Boston baked beans are a tradition in columnist Nancy Horn's family. Unlike Western barbecue beans, they do not contain ketchup or barbecue sauce. / Joe Horn/For the RGJ Barbecue and grilling season...
View ArticleDish It Up: Corn soup offers sweet summer in a bowl
A soup of fresh corn kernels is thickened with heavy cream or coconut milk and bulked up with vegetables. / Joe Horn/For the RGJ When I was in college, I lived in an early 1900s house that had been...
View ArticlePot roast pleasure: A foolproof version of the cool-weather classic
Pot roast, onions and carrots are served on a bed of mashed potatoes; savory jus soaks the meat, vegetables and starch. The meat is trimmed to by the supermarket butcher to three inches thick. / Joe...
View ArticleDish It Up: Haul out your biggest pot for spicy turkey chili
With ground turkey chili, add more or fewer beans and spices to achieve desired consistency and flavor. / Joe Horn/For the RGJ When temperatures drop and flannel sheets emerge from the linen closet and...
View ArticleDish It Up: Cream of turkey soup – eat alone or use for turkey enchiladas
For a binder, turkey enchiladas use homemade cream of poultry soup instead of typical canned soup. / Joe Horn/For the RGJI was chatting with my sis on the phone the other day, and the conversation...
View ArticleDish It Up: Greek lemon soup to celebrate National Soup Month
The bracing acidity of freshly squeezed lemon juice is essential to the balance of avgolemono Greek egg and lemon soup. / Joe Horn/For the RGJ When I opened Dish Café right before the holidays in...
View ArticleDish It Up: Braised greens make a fine meatless meal
Cider-braised greens with apple and fennel is hearty enough to be a vegetarian main course or to serve as a side dish to meat entrées. / Joe Horn/For the RGJLast week, one of my sisters was in town for...
View ArticleDish It Up: Coconut oil and coconut milk transform white bean soup
Coconut oil instead of olive oil is used to help form the flavor base of vegetarian white bean soup. Coconut milk is stirred in for more coconut flavor. / Joe Horn/For the RGJWritten by Nancy HornFor...
View ArticleDish It Up: Family twist on chop suey calls for ground beef and pasta
When columnist Nancy Horn was growing up, dinner sometimes featured what her mother called American chop suey, a twist on the Chinese-American dish. Mom's version dispensed with Chinese-inspired...
View ArticleDish It Up: Fragrant chicken curry made easy with yellow curry paste
Traditional curry recipes call for extensive ingredients and preparation. Speed dial this chicken curry with curry paste brands like Mae Ploy or Thai Kitchen. / Joe Horn/For the RGJOne of our favorite...
View ArticleDish It Up: No-stir baked polenta with roasted squash
Polenta, the Italian name for dried and ground corn, can be cooked on the stove top or baked; served warm, at room temperature or chilled; and stirred or topped with sweet and savory ingredients. / Joe...
View ArticleDish It Up: Roast chicken with croutons, lemon and herbs
Serve roast chicken seasoned with lemon and herbs on a bed of croutons or roasted potatoes or both.(Photo: Joe Horn/For the RGJ, Joe Horn/For the RGJ) So, I was driving around the other Friday about 4...
View ArticleDish It Up: Angel hair tossed with spinach pesto
Angel hair pasta is tossed with spinach pesto to create its lively green color. Dust with good quality Parmigiano-Reggiano. (Photo: Joe Horn/For the RGJ, Joe Horn/For the RGJ)Growing up, you would not...
View ArticleDish It Up Easter: Easy, elegant potatoes dauphinoise
Potatoes dauphinoise are baked beneath a sprinkling of browned and bubbling cheese. The name refers to the Dauphiné region of France where the dish originated. (Photo: Joe Horn/Special to the RGJ )...
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